Test 5 · Bicycles and other wheels

«e-bike is basically a motorbike, so no pedalling needed innit» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: e-bike, pedalling, needed innit · What happens: be, need, innit · To what, where: motorbike

This is test 5 of lesson 25 «Bicycles and other wheels» of the technology course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 motorbike	punct
2	e-bike	e-bike	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 motorbike	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 motorbike	cop
4	basically	basically	ADV	_	6 motorbike	advmod
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 motorbike	det
6	motorbike	motorbike	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 innit	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	12 innit	advmod
9	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	10 pedalling	det
10	pedalling	pedalling	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 innit	nsubj
11	needed	need	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 innit	amod
12	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 motorbike	appos
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	12 innit	punct
14	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 right	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 right	cop
16	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 innit	acl:relcl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 motorbike	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	e-bike	a motorbike	basically property	tree rules
2	need in a quote	participle				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
3	innit in a quote		no pedalling			tree rules
4	is	present	needed innit		right property	tree rules

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, it goes on its own like a motorbike

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 goes	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 goes	nsubj
4	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 own	case
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 own	nmod:poss
7	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 goes	obl
8	like	like	ADP	_	10 motorbike	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 motorbike	det
10	motorbike	motorbike	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 goes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	present	it			its own		like a motorbike	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on own=Location

Option 2

No, e-bikes have no motor at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 have	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	e-bikes	e-bike	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 have	nsubj
4	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 motor	det
6	motor	motor	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 have	obj
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 all	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 motor	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	e-bikes	no motor		all			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent motor=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

No, its motor only helps while you pedal

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 helps	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 helps	punct
3	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 motor	nmod:poss
4	motor	motor	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 helps	nsubj
5	only	only	ADV	_	6 helps	advmod
6	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	while	while	SCONJ	_	9 pedal	mark
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 pedal	nsubj
9	pedal	pedal	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 helps	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	present	its motor						vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
2	pedal	present	you						vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Yes, but only uphill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 uphill	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	5 uphill	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 uphill	advmod
5	uphill	uphill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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